Patents by Inventor Sylvie Lilliane Pailloux

Sylvie Lilliane Pailloux has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11136251
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, and devices for sensing, detecting, and/or selectively capturing phosphate from water. An exemplary method includes: contacting a ligand or a rare earth metal complex of a ligand as described herein with an aqueous phosphate-containing medium at a pH of 5 to 12 under conditions sufficient to bind phosphate (e.g., reversibly bind phosphate). In certain embodiments, the method further includes releasing the bound phosphate by contacting the bound phosphate complex with an aqueous medium at a pH of 0 to 4 under conditions sufficient to release the bound phosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Valerie Christine Pierre, Sylvie Lilliane Pailloux, Sheng-Yin Huang, Mandapati V. Ramakrishnam Raju
  • Publication number: 20180273406
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, and devices for sensing, detecting, and/or selectively capturing phosphate from water. An exemplary method includes: contacting a ligand or a rare earth metal complex of a ligand as described herein with an aqueous phosphate-containing medium at a pH of 5 to 12 under conditions sufficient to bind phosphate (e.g., reversibly bind phosphate). In certain embodiments, the method further includes releasing the bound phosphate by contacting the bound phosphate complex with an aqueous medium at a pH of 0 to 4 under conditions sufficient to release the bound phosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Valerie Christine Pierre, Sylvie Lilliane Pailloux, Sheng-Yin Huang, Mandapati V. Ramakrishnam Raju